Chesterfield Lost Railways Horns Bridge and the LDampECR

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Welcome to episode 2 of Chestefield's Lost Railways. We're picking up where we left off at Horns Bridge to follow the Lancashire Derbyshire East Coast Railway (LD ECR) through Chesterfield to it's terminus at Chesterfield Market Place Station. • Make sure you watch part 1 about the Great Central Railway in Chesterfield - • Chesterfield and the Lost Great Centr... • Opening in 1897, the LDECR was the third railway company to arrive in Chesterfield after the Midland Railway and the GCR. Where now sits the busy Hornsbridge Island roundabout once stood the Horns Bridge viaduct. A mixture of seven brick arches and four girder spans. The LDECR dwarfed the lower level Midland and Great Central lines. That must have been a grand entrance to the town for travellers. • The line closed in the 1950s and in 1960 the demolition of the viaduct began with cranes lifting off the girder sections. Some arches survived longer than others and left this strange sight of the last arch still towered over the landscape until that was also finally demolished to make way for the new road system in the 1980s. • From here, the line swept south of the town centre on a sizeable embankment, crossing the Boythorpe Viaduct and Brampton Branch of the Midland Railway. It swung across Park Road into the Chesterfield Market Place station. Nothing remains of the station now except the former station hotel from 1899 - The Portland Hotel which is now a Wetherspoons pub and hotel. • • Did you know that Chesterfield was never the intended final destination for the LDECR. The reference to Lancashire in the company title is a little out of context geographically to where the line actually ended up serving. But their initial plans were to extend west as far Warrington and the Manchester Ship Canal. That didn’t get anywhere near happening except for an outline of a rather optimistic route across the Peak District. Similarly to the East, the line didn’t make it to it’s proposed desination of Sutton on Sea, rather reaching just short of Lincoln at Pyewipe junction. We refer to the LD ECR, but it’s time under that company was actually short lived – less than a decade as the railway was absorbed into the Great Central railway in 1907. • http://www.hornsbridge.co.uk/ • Buy me a coffee - https://ko-fi.com/wobblyrunner • Facebook - / wobbly.runner • Instagram - / wobbly.runner • #chesterfeld #ldecr

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